Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A born browser of dictionaries, he honed his language skills as a US Army linguist (Polish and German) before diving into ...

It looks like Acer could be working on more than a 10 inch netbook. The company has filed for a patent on a mobile internet device or MID. There’s virtually no information available about the device ...

Ubuntu Linux today released the first developer’s version of its new Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition 8.04 operating system, which is aimed at device manufacturers that build Internet-ready ...

There’s been a lot of talk over the last few months about NVIDIA’s new ION platform that will bundle an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GPU with an Intel Atom CPU to offer advanced graphics capabilities for ...

Which Tablet (PC) Will You Swallow–Apple’s or Android’s? As speculation increases on the InterWebs about Apple's mythical tablet Mac, spurred by some leaked video, another cool-looking tablet MID has ...

Is Toshiba Beating Apple to a Multimedia Tablet? Whoa--check out this: The Toshiba JournE was just unveiled and the Engadget chaps gave it a hands-on at the IFA electronics show. It's a handheld ...